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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

BRAINARD KINGSLEY, OF DANVILLE, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOI-IN H. SVISHER, OF SAME PLACE.

WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 409,105, dated August 13, 1889.

Application filed April 22, 1889. Serial No. 308,092. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it nuay'cmtrn:

Be it known that I, BRAINAED KINGSLEY, of Danville, in the county of Vermilion and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Washing Machines; and I do hereby declare that vwherein theclothes are placed 'in a rotary drum revolving in a suds-box or boiler.

The objects of the invention are to provide a washing-machine of the class mentioned capable of thoroughly and quickly washing the clothes, and which is cheap, simple, and durable in construction, easy to operate, and readily understood by any person. These objects are accomplished by, and my inven? tion consists in, certain novel features of con`` struction and combinations of parts more fully described hereinafter.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a vertical longitudinalsection of the machine. Fig. 2 is a horizontal cross-section on line 0c zr, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is' a perspective view of .the machine with the cover removed. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of one of the buckets.

In the drawings, the reference-letter a indicates a suitable suds-box or boiler, open at the top and provided with the corresponding bearings b b in its top edges, suitably braced. The suds-box is provided with a removable cover c, of the usual construction, and provided wit-h suitable handles d to facilitate manipulation of the same, and its lower edges are in the present instance provided with notches corresponding with the bearings in the suds-box.

Vithin the suds-box the clothes-receiving drum revolves and is supported therein by the gudgeons e e, extending from the opposite heads of the drum, resting in said bearings b b and projecting beyond the saine, the outer ends of said gudgeons being preferably squared to receive a crank f, by which the A drum is rotated.

My invention consists in the peculiar construction of this drum, which is composed of the two circular heads g g, to the centers of which the gudgeons are secured, the periphery of the drum being formed and the outer edges of the heads connected by a series of longitudinal rods h, located a desirable distance apart and secured to the heads in a suitable manner-as by forming an inwardlyextending iiange c' around the edge of each head and soldering or riveting the ends of the rods thereto. Theinterior of the drum is divided into two compartments by a central transverse partition-wall j, preferably formed by a series of rods located a distance apart and extending longitudinally of the drum from head to head.

The drum is provided with one or more buckets k, located at the periphery of the same and composed of a curved piece of sheet metal secured to and extending b etween the edges of the heads and forming the outer side of the bucket, and the bottom or inner side of the bucket is formed by another piece of sheet metal secured to the heads and closing kone end of the bucket, but leaving the opposite ends open, the bottom .piece of the bucket being of less width than the outer piece.. A plate or strip of metal t extends across the open end of the bucket, as shown, forming a wing or deflector and leaving an induction-opening mI into the bucket near the outer side of the same and an eduction-open ing n from the same and through the bottom thereof, and the inner edge of said wing is preferably curved inwardly, as shown. Vhere two buckets are employed they are located at opposite ends of the partition-wall with their openings upon opposite sides of the same.

In order to allow access to the interiors of both compartments of the drum, one of the buckets is constructed separate from the drum-heads, with sides to which the bottom and outer plates of the same are secured, (see Fig. 4,) and at its closed end this bucket is hinged to one or more of the rods h, so that IOO it can swing outwardly from its normal position, and said bucketI is provided with a spring or other catch o, by which it can be secured in its normal position. This catch is rigidly secured to the bucket, and its spring free end is provided with an aperture to receive a pin projecting from a head of the drum.

Between the buckets each compartment is provided with one or more longitudinal strips of sheet metal p, projecting inwardly from the periphery of the drinn and extending from head to head and forming wings.

It should be observed that the rods 7L, opposite the induction-openings of the bucket, are located nearer the axis of the drinn, so that the free ilow of the water into the buckets will not be obstructed.

The operation is as follows: The hinged bucket is swung up and the clothes placed in both compartments. The boiler is then iilled about twothirds full ot water and the drum rotated, so that the open ends of the buckets will enter the water iirst. taies, the partition will force the clothes through the water and carry them around with the cylinder and hold them in such position that they will receive the full force of the water pouring from the bucket at the opposite end of the partition and allow the water to drain through them. The win between the buckets and partition catch the clothes and preventthein from rolling into balls, and also lift them from the water as the driiiu revolves. The drinn having its periphery formed of rods admits the free circulation of the water and steam through the drum and allows the operator to observe the interior of the drinn and sce that everything is working as it should, and, further, the iods ot the partition and drum periphery act to rub and scour the clothes as a vif'ash-board. The water is received in the buckets through the open end thereof, but is discharged through the opening in the bottom thereof, the deiiecting-wing forcing the water down so that it will fall on the clothes.

That I claim isl. In a washing-machine, the combination, with a boiler, of a cylindrical drinn to rotate therein, comprising heads to which the supporting-gudgeons are secured, a series ot rods secured to and extending between t-lie heads and forming the periphery of the drum, a transverse partition dividing the drinn into two compartments, buckets secured to the periphery ot the drinn and at opposite ends of said partition, and wings extending from head to head and projecting inwardly from As the drum ro` the periphery toward the axis ot the drum, substantially as described.

2. A washing-machine drinn having a transveise partition dividing the drum into two compartments and water lifting and discharging buckets at opposite ends of the partition, one of said buckets being hinged to allow access to said compartments, substant-ially as described.

In a washing-machine, the combination, with a suds-box or boiler, of a cylindrical rotary clothes-druin therein, a central transverse partitionin the drum dividing the same into two compartments, and buckets carried by the drum at opposite ends of the partition to pour and dash water upon the clothes on the partition as the drum revolves, substantially as described.

i. In a washing-maehine, the combination of a rotary clothes-drum composed ot heads and a periphery formed of longitudinal rods secured to the heads, a bucket secured to said periphery having a deiiecting-plate at its open end forming an inlet and discharge opening, the rods forming the periphery oi the drum at the iiilet-opening to said bucketl being located nearer the axis of the drinn to allow free How of the water into said bucket, substantially as described.

5. The combination, in a rotary clothesdrum, of the heads of the drinn and a water lifting and discharging bucket eonsistingof an outer side secured to said heads, a corresponding inner side of less width than the outer side, and an inclined def'lecting-plate extending across the open end of the bucket, and having its inner edge curved inwardly, and forming an iiiduction-openiiig in the outer upper end of the bucket and a diseharge-opening in the bottom thereof, substantiallyz described.

(i. The combination, in a rotary clothesdrinn, ot the periphery of the drum, a central transverse partition dividing the drum into two compartments, said periphery having an opening at one end oi' the partition into both compartments, and a hinged water lifting and discharging bucket normally closing said opening and provided with a springcatch to normally hold it closed, substantially as described.

In testimony' that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signature in presence oi. two witnesses.

BRAINARD KINGSLEY.

\Vitnesses:

W. (i. TUTTLE, GEORGE BoYLE.

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